If my child's teacher slapped him during class. I would have called the police had him arrested for felony assault and not bother with the school system.
Where i live, unions are like political parties, you choose the one that reflects your views. There's no total shutdown when one union wants to strike, sometimes only a minority of even their own members will participate. In the US, there seems to be only one union per sector, like the teacher's union. Does not seem like a healthy situation.
Shut down the DOE. End public-funded education. Privatize it all. If people have to work and pay for an education, maybe more kids would appreciate it. For what most districts spend on educating a child over a year, the government could pay for EVERY child to attend the private school of their choice. No worries with the DOE. No worries with school board fights. Let the private schools do what they do best.
I've always wanted to ask a member of the teacher's union a simple, logical question. Let's say that "higher" education is made mandatory, but, you can't choose which college or university to attend. Your choice is made purely based upon which district you happen to live in. Mr/Mrs Union person, are you in favor of such a system? If not, why not?
And to think that our health care system is going to start looking more and more like this... This is a perfect illustration of why we need a "private option" in education just like in medicine.
Decentralize and marketize the public school system. We will never get rid of all public schools, and I'm not so sure that would be such a good idea (as there ARE many poor folks who simply can't afford anything else, although I do support vouchers but I'm sure not every family that can't afford would get one). But we MUST do all we can to fix it and make the education much better. Even many public universities in this country provide quality service. And why? COMPETITION! Decentralized power.
Most university systems with many universities under the same name, like MU, UMSL, Rolla and UMKC, do not have NEARLY as many schools as are in the K-12 districts, for one thing. The largest is California's (with 26 University of Californias), but that is an exceptionally large state to begin with. No other state has nearly that many in any university system.
My ideal would be EVERY school being operated independently of the others. No districts or any of that other nonsense.
@whoo689 I've seen the "poor" kids who get free breakfast/lunch and before/after school programs courtesy of our tax dollars. They live in big houses and have two working parents. They wear $200 tennis shoes and have the latest iPhones and gadgetry at 12.
One of the top paid officials in my school makes a half of a million dollars and all of the teachers are taking pay freezes. This is completely unfair and these democrats who support the unions say that the CEOs make to much money.
I don't care what it takes, if and when I have children, they will NEVER be sent to these gulags. It's an absolute disgrace what we subject our children to. -_-
@lordthawkeye Damn straight. I have two nephews and I help my sister pay for private education. I love my nephews too much to let them go to public school.
@ThePenWolf Semi-private. There's really no such thing as fully private schools otuside of home schooling. As the vid here demonstrates, even private schools have to conform to the state's whims.
@lordthawkeye You mean choosing good versus evil? I think I'll choose good. And after all, if for some reason I don't like the school I can just get my sister to pull her kids out of there and take them somewhere else.
You have to also learn to separate what is actual propaganda from Truth. Truth isn't just factually so, but also Good, in that it promotes that which is Good. We all know that sex education in public schools today is propaganda meant at promoting adultery.
@lordthawkeye - The difference is that the religious school must serve it's students needs or lose funding from parents and donors. Public Schools that fail in most cases get MORE money. Where is the incentive to improve?
@mpc91 A choice that is more and more being denied to parents. You should see some of the despicable things teachers unions have done to shut down charter schools. They're worse than gangs in some ways.
@lordthawkeye - And it doesn't just hurt parents, but it als stifles local and state economies that are forced to spend so much of their money for these failing schools, which spend hundreds of thousands of dollars per classroom. Property owners and taxpayers pay for this whether they like it or not, or someone with a gun will come knocking on their door.
I had a teacher make the mistake of hitting me. My Father almost killed him. The teacher is lucky that someone came into the room before he got his neck broken.
Parents have to be more proactive in the schools. Every year on the first day of school my Father would come and warn the teachers that he would not tolerate any crap, both from me or the teachers. They basically knew that I was off limits. I saw lots of other kids get bad beatings from teachers. It was sick how they abused the kids.
Teachers do not have a "real" job. They are government employees. They have NO right to unionize nor strike or demand higher pay. The school boards should be in the hands of the students parents only. If a parent feels a teacher is doing a good job or bad it should be brought before the parent committee and then they should be fired on the spot. PERIOD> My daughter is home schooled. She graduated 2 years early!
I'm a Teamster and I firmly believe that public sector unions should be illegal simply because unions make political contributions and hire lobbyists. Not one penny from taxes forced upon the taxpayers should be used for any political party or lobby.
Systems like this might protect a "job" but are terrible as they kill incentive to do well as a teacher, school or student. The proof is in front of us all.
@ProudConservative2 a number of years ago the newly appointed Supt of schools in Chicago was asked "What is your #1 goal?" She responded.... "RETIREMENT" We have to take full responsibility for our kids education into our own hands (like everything else). No one can or will do a better job overall.
@1OriginalQueen search youtube "rotten public schools"... another great liberty pen vid. the term is used somewhere in the middle but the whole vid is great. Thomas Sowell is my hero.
@return135, well-said my friend. Schools are like low-security prisons. You have to be there, by law. Your freedoms and Constitutional rights are limited while inside them. Things are regimented. Even the content of what you are taught is "drilled" into you and only has one right answer. In short, schools are lemming factories.
You also gotta factor in what area that's in. Nominal salary isn't the end all; you must factor in cost of living. Now, a lot of people do go by nominal salary if they plan on moving south after retiring which isn't a bad plan. Also, what school hired the janitor and the full scope of his duties. The main problem in my view is the gov't union itself. At least in the private sector when a union wants to bargain, the employer realizes that that means lower profit and has a
natural incentive to minimize the union's desires whereas in gov't, the gov't just basically says to the unions "oh, you want your salary to go up, more vacation, more benefits? Sure, we can do that." because the cost isn't borne by the gov't itself. Whenever you have this done in economics where there's a disconnect between who pays for the services and who provides the services, you will get uneconomized use of resources.
Not only is there a disconnect, but the disconnected payer is forced to pay against his will under threat of violent force. Plus, the government can inflate the money supply. Two more reasons bad public education employees get paid a ton.
If my child's teacher slapped him during class. I would have called the police had him arrested for felony assault and not bother with the school system.
ReviewForReel 2 months ago
Stossel is a joke.
jrwel14 2 months ago
@jrwel14 Thanks for enlightening us. There's nothing like intelligent discourse to illuminate the realities of a situation.
MrMrtapeguy 1 month ago
@MrMrtapeguy Anytime,dude! Next time just ask!
jrwel14 1 month ago
Yeah, I used to think the US was less corrupt than Mexico when I moved here. I was young.
ElJefer 2 months ago
@Belgianmeth in Brazil is even worst, because all unions are basically from the same party
SanQae 3 months ago
"we should be proud of that, that shows that 99.97% are great."
... you learned a lot in your public school, didn't you?
darris321 5 months ago
Profit motive is a powerful tool when it comes to quality of work.
atchisrj1 5 months ago
Schools are antihuman.
elfornse 7 months ago
Where i live, unions are like political parties, you choose the one that reflects your views. There's no total shutdown when one union wants to strike, sometimes only a minority of even their own members will participate. In the US, there seems to be only one union per sector, like the teacher's union. Does not seem like a healthy situation.
Belgianmeth 7 months ago
Teachers sound like a priesthood. They are also almost impossible to "fire."
calabashalley 8 months ago 3
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People need to see this movie. I'm going to rent it. Great video & kudos to Bowdon.
klrdotorg 9 months ago
Shut down the DOE. End public-funded education. Privatize it all. If people have to work and pay for an education, maybe more kids would appreciate it. For what most districts spend on educating a child over a year, the government could pay for EVERY child to attend the private school of their choice. No worries with the DOE. No worries with school board fights. Let the private schools do what they do best.
miazagora 1 year ago 7
YOU ARE SO RIGHT!
scienceatheism 1 year ago
I've always wanted to ask a member of the teacher's union a simple, logical question. Let's say that "higher" education is made mandatory, but, you can't choose which college or university to attend. Your choice is made purely based upon which district you happen to live in. Mr/Mrs Union person, are you in favor of such a system? If not, why not?
thatguysaid 1 year ago
650 views? Why hasn't the whole world seen this.
E3BlSH0P 1 year ago
And to think that our health care system is going to start looking more and more like this... This is a perfect illustration of why we need a "private option" in education just like in medicine.
RMMHS4RP 1 year ago 9
Decentralize and marketize the public school system. We will never get rid of all public schools, and I'm not so sure that would be such a good idea (as there ARE many poor folks who simply can't afford anything else, although I do support vouchers but I'm sure not every family that can't afford would get one). But we MUST do all we can to fix it and make the education much better. Even many public universities in this country provide quality service. And why? COMPETITION! Decentralized power.
whoo689 1 year ago
Most university systems with many universities under the same name, like MU, UMSL, Rolla and UMKC, do not have NEARLY as many schools as are in the K-12 districts, for one thing. The largest is California's (with 26 University of Californias), but that is an exceptionally large state to begin with. No other state has nearly that many in any university system.
My ideal would be EVERY school being operated independently of the others. No districts or any of that other nonsense.
whoo689 1 year ago
There's an environmental charter school??? wtf
whoo689 1 year ago 4
@whoo689 I've seen the "poor" kids who get free breakfast/lunch and before/after school programs courtesy of our tax dollars. They live in big houses and have two working parents. They wear $200 tennis shoes and have the latest iPhones and gadgetry at 12.
miazagora 1 year ago
One of the top paid officials in my school makes a half of a million dollars and all of the teachers are taking pay freezes. This is completely unfair and these democrats who support the unions say that the CEOs make to much money.
dukee155 1 year ago 3
I don't care what it takes, if and when I have children, they will NEVER be sent to these gulags. It's an absolute disgrace what we subject our children to. -_-
lordthawkeye 1 year ago
@lordthawkeye Damn straight. I have two nephews and I help my sister pay for private education. I love my nephews too much to let them go to public school.
ThePenWolf 1 year ago
@ThePenWolf Semi-private. There's really no such thing as fully private schools otuside of home schooling. As the vid here demonstrates, even private schools have to conform to the state's whims.
lordthawkeye 1 year ago
@lordthawkeye Depends on the school. I've found Jesuit and Catholic schools that do not take a dime of government money and do quite well.
ThePenWolf 1 year ago 7
@ThePenWolf Sure but...religious schools so you're just trading one set of propaganda for another. ^^;
lordthawkeye 1 year ago
@lordthawkeye You mean choosing good versus evil? I think I'll choose good. And after all, if for some reason I don't like the school I can just get my sister to pull her kids out of there and take them somewhere else.
You have to also learn to separate what is actual propaganda from Truth. Truth isn't just factually so, but also Good, in that it promotes that which is Good. We all know that sex education in public schools today is propaganda meant at promoting adultery.
ThePenWolf 1 year ago
@lordthawkeye - The difference is that the religious school must serve it's students needs or lose funding from parents and donors. Public Schools that fail in most cases get MORE money. Where is the incentive to improve?
The whole key is parental choice.
mpc91 1 year ago
@mpc91 A choice that is more and more being denied to parents. You should see some of the despicable things teachers unions have done to shut down charter schools. They're worse than gangs in some ways.
lordthawkeye 1 year ago
@lordthawkeye - And it doesn't just hurt parents, but it als stifles local and state economies that are forced to spend so much of their money for these failing schools, which spend hundreds of thousands of dollars per classroom. Property owners and taxpayers pay for this whether they like it or not, or someone with a gun will come knocking on their door.
mpc91 1 year ago
I had a teacher make the mistake of hitting me. My Father almost killed him. The teacher is lucky that someone came into the room before he got his neck broken.
Parents have to be more proactive in the schools. Every year on the first day of school my Father would come and warn the teachers that he would not tolerate any crap, both from me or the teachers. They basically knew that I was off limits. I saw lots of other kids get bad beatings from teachers. It was sick how they abused the kids.
XCritonX 1 year ago
Teachers do not have a "real" job. They are government employees. They have NO right to unionize nor strike or demand higher pay. The school boards should be in the hands of the students parents only. If a parent feels a teacher is doing a good job or bad it should be brought before the parent committee and then they should be fired on the spot. PERIOD> My daughter is home schooled. She graduated 2 years early!
SuperGuitarman69 1 year ago
I'm a Teamster and I firmly believe that public sector unions should be illegal simply because unions make political contributions and hire lobbyists. Not one penny from taxes forced upon the taxpayers should be used for any political party or lobby.
oTANSTAAFLo 1 year ago 4
Does anyone have a link to the full show?
I thought I saw all his shows, but I missed this one.
imre1000 1 year ago
Systems like this might protect a "job" but are terrible as they kill incentive to do well as a teacher, school or student. The proof is in front of us all.
ProudConservative2 1 year ago
@ProudConservative2 a number of years ago the newly appointed Supt of schools in Chicago was asked "What is your #1 goal?" She responded.... "RETIREMENT" We have to take full responsibility for our kids education into our own hands (like everything else). No one can or will do a better job overall.
ProudConservative2 1 year ago
dance of the lemons...
jinx47555 1 year ago
@jinx47555 I don't know what that means but it sounds about right.
1OriginalQueen 1 year ago
@1OriginalQueen search youtube "rotten public schools"... another great liberty pen vid. the term is used somewhere in the middle but the whole vid is great. Thomas Sowell is my hero.
jinx47555 1 year ago
they shouldnt even call them schools, they should call them brainwashing camps.
return135 1 year ago 40
@return135, well-said my friend. Schools are like low-security prisons. You have to be there, by law. Your freedoms and Constitutional rights are limited while inside them. Things are regimented. Even the content of what you are taught is "drilled" into you and only has one right answer. In short, schools are lemming factories.
WelfareRobot 1 year ago
@return135
I prefer the term "State Indoctrination Camps" myself.
Surhotchaperchlorome 1 year ago 47
Janitors making 6 figures, Bullshit! I don't believe that.
roseagain2 1 year ago
@roseagain2 It's true.
goodinohio 1 year ago
@goodinohio I'm in the wrong business! You probably don't even have to have a High School degree to be a janitor.
roseagain2 1 year ago 5
@roseagain2
You also gotta factor in what area that's in. Nominal salary isn't the end all; you must factor in cost of living. Now, a lot of people do go by nominal salary if they plan on moving south after retiring which isn't a bad plan. Also, what school hired the janitor and the full scope of his duties. The main problem in my view is the gov't union itself. At least in the private sector when a union wants to bargain, the employer realizes that that means lower profit and has a
selfrealizedexile 1 year ago
@roseagain2
natural incentive to minimize the union's desires whereas in gov't, the gov't just basically says to the unions "oh, you want your salary to go up, more vacation, more benefits? Sure, we can do that." because the cost isn't borne by the gov't itself. Whenever you have this done in economics where there's a disconnect between who pays for the services and who provides the services, you will get uneconomized use of resources.
selfrealizedexile 1 year ago
@selfrealizedexile
Not only is there a disconnect, but the disconnected payer is forced to pay against his will under threat of violent force. Plus, the government can inflate the money supply. Two more reasons bad public education employees get paid a ton.
truthadvocate 1 year ago 3
lol @ The Obama Green Charter School
Sondre7 1 year ago 2
This is why we have to stop electing candidates who take money from these organizations.
Rhiannon003 1 year ago 2
Everyone needs to see the film. It blew my mind. Show it to anyone who wants more funding for public education
TheLegalImmigrant05 1 year ago 4